“I’m starting to sound like a broken record,” Davey Martinez said after the Nationals’ 4-2 loss to the New York Mets on Tuesday night, “... but the walks and the errors are going to hurt us every time we go out there. So we just got to limit the mistakes, we’re shooting ourselves in the foot every time we go out there, and we got so many walks, and so many errors, we just got to clean that up.”
Washington’s pitchers walked a combined 10 batters on the night, and in the field the club had two more errors (and an out at home that wasn’t even close, but had more to do with a real nice relay by New York’s defenders according to the Nats’ skipper, than a bad decision on the runner’s (Yadiel Hernández’s) part or third base coach Gary DiSarcina’s).